Speaker Bios
Steve Cunningham
Founder of BlindVision
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If you’re a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers, and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery, or video for even more engagement.
Richard Brewin
MD, ProgressBB
Experienced mentor, coach, facilitator and speaker, specialising in owner managed professional accountancy firms. 35 years working with good people frustrated by their progress, concerned about their future or simply disappointed by their dreams still seemingly out of reach.
Lucy Cohen
CoFounder, Mazuma Money
With over 15 years at Mazuma, and 19 years in total in the accountancy industry, Lucy is widely recognised as an industry expert and regularly called upon to contribute to trade publications and industry discussions. She is a regular columnist for Accounting Web, the leading online publication for accountants. Her debut book, The Millennial Renaissance was released in 2017 and met with acclaim.
Her second book, Forget the First Million was released in January 2022.
Lucy is proud to have been shortlisted for Director of the year (Innovation) by the Wales Institute of Directors in 2019 and has been shortlisted as one of the top Women in Accountancy and Finance 2020.
In 2021 she has been shortlisted by the Accounting Excellence Awards as a finalist for the title of Practice Pioneer.
In 2020 Lucy was appointed as a Specialist Advisor to the Economic Strategy Board for the Swansea Bay City Deal; a £1.3bn project to invest in the area.
Lucy is on the Advisory Board for AccountingWeb Live 2021.
Dan Richards
Commercial Director, MyFirms App
Dan has been involved in the Accounting profession since 1998. Over that time he has helped many thousands of firms around the world to generate new revenue, improve their marketing, grow their firms and embrace technology.
He has also been key in the education of the profession around the mobile and digital relationship firms have with their clients; the change inside a firm that leads to success and the shifting expectations of firms’ clients and staff. This pioneering, plus longevity, has led to him being considered a key influencer in the Accounting profession and an in-demand speaker and contributor; highly regarded by both firms as well as the industry that supports them.
It has also been a big – and continuing - learning curve!
Alexandra Bond
Performance and Leadership Coach
Coach, Trainer and a top ten podcast host, Alexandra is an ICF certified executive
leadership & performance coach with a background in corporate finance, accounting ad
entrepreneurship along with training in psychology.
Her focus is on working with high-achieving leaders to develop stronger performance,
confidence and connections, to challenge them to take ownership of their unique and
remarkable ability to impact others.
Working with clients from Xero, ICAEW, EY, AAT, The Royal Society, to Swiss Re,
experience in both practice and industry, Alexandra uses a four phase approach to
looking at the leader as a whole person.
Alexandra is often found contributing in featured publications for
AccountingWeb, Independent Financial Accountant, AAT and featured
in ICAEW Economia Magazine. You may also like to check out her
previous podcast, Presenting Finance which was voted 8th best
Presentation Podcast on the Internet 2021.
John Toon
Senior Manager, Beever and Struthers
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John Thompson
MD, Complete Advisory Solution (CAS)
Dan has been involved in the Accounting profession since 1998. Over that time he has helped many thousands of firms around the world to generate new revenue, improve their marketing, grow their firms and embrace technology.
He has also been key in the education of the profession around the mobile and digital relationship firms have with their clients; the change inside a firm that leads to success and the shifting expectations of firms’ clients and staff. This pioneering, plus longevity, has led to him being considered a key influencer in the Accounting profession and an in-demand speaker and contributor; highly regarded by both firms as well as the industry that supports them.
It has also been a big – and continuing - learning curve!
Jo Edwards
MD, JE Consulting
Jo Edwards is the principal of JE Consulting, who specialise in providing marketing assistance to professional firms. Jo has over 34 years practical marketing experience working with a wide range of firms across the UK, both large and small and has a particular specialism in preparing and delivering internet and social media strategies to clients. Jo and her team’s “hands on” approach to marketing has helped many firms across the country, to generate new clients and develop profitable cross-selling services to existing clients through innovative e-marketing programmes.
Visit www.je-consulting.co.uk for more details
Brian Coventry
CEO, CloudCapcha and Envision
Brian has a wealth of experience in helping professional service firms be more effective, using software and consulting techniques to improve and grow business value.
Brian’s experience and knowledge of business, strategy and management – gained from different countries and cultures – helps others see a forward path, revealing options and value improvements. His ability to communicate highly technical concepts in a way that makes it easy for others to understand is essential for bringing teams into a discussion on change, helping them define solutions, and working to make them a reality.
He possesses strong leadership and communication skills and has gained a reputation for building cohesive high-performing teams through his people-orientation and leading by example. He maintains a strong adherence to principles, values and beliefs while focusing on and achieving results.
Brian earned a Bachelor of Business, Accounting degree from Deakin University in Australia.
Brian developed the methodology, trademarked Envision, which unearths the forces that are restraining business performance, technology and process change. Envision provides a space for action and directs focus on the forces that drive your future growth and Why.
A keen Open water swimmer - Brian completed a 4 person English Channel relay in 2017 and his Windermere solo in 2020.